Donald Trump makes him official on the plan to annex the Far North

Donald Trump said Fox News presenter Bret Baier in a Super bowl Pre-game interview according to which Canada “would be much better as 51st state”, because the president continued to insist that his reflection on social networks of an American annexation of the Greater North is a real thing .

“We lose $ 200 billion a year with Canada, and I’m not going to let it happen,” said Trump. “It’s too much. Why do we pay $ 200 billion a year, mainly in grant to Canada? Now, if they are a 51st state, I don’t mind doing it. »»

The United States does not provide a subsidy of $ 200 billion in Canada, but it seems that Trump was referring to the business deficit with the country, which is not the same thing. In December, the trade deficit of goods and services was $ 98.4 billion, According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis.

In what was broadcast on Sunday, what was missing from Baier’s interview, they are follow -up, when he has traveled a list of questions for about seven minutes, going from subjects like Elon Musk, to the Tribunal’s challenges to Doge’s access to federal agencies, at a pricing policy, for whom Trump will win the big match. After a blanket, Trump went with the Kansas City chiefs.

More Trump interview will be broadcast on Monday in Baier Special reportIt is therefore not clear if another point will be addressed: an overwhelming majority of Canadians do not want to become the 51st state, no more than most Americans, According to a recent survey. In Canada, Trump’s speeches also seem to have solidified the opposition against it.

Speaking of annexation and prices, Trump seemed to attract his partly inspiration from Michael Moore in 1995 Canadian bacon invasion satire and the Blame Canada on the theme South Park: larger, longer, not cut 1999 film.

Usually quick to respond to Trump’s taunts and political measures, Canadian PM Justin Trudeau I am strangely silent on social networks Sunday after Fox’s interview. Mark Carney, the main competitor to take over the Liberal Party and the Office of the Prime Minister of Trudeau in the coming months, was online. However, the former governor of the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England passed the calendar on the support he receives from members of Parliament and not the attack on Canada’s sovereignty.

The pre-match interviews of the Super Bowl with the President have become a little tradition since 2009, often mixing some impactful questions with real softballs.

Baier made the press The president of the then, in the controversial interview, in June 2023, who brought to Trump. This time, around, it was a light touch, because when Baier asked her about the challenge to the Musk team while crossing the federal government with little transparency.

“Some of your documents have raised some questions and have had some perspectives,” Baier told Trump. “Nineteen prosecutors general filed a complaint and early Saturday, a judge agreed with them to restrict Elon Musk and his team of government efficiency Doge to access the payment and data systems of the Treasury Department. They said there was an irreparable risk of damage. What do you do with that? And does that slow down what you want to do?

Trump replied: “I don’t agree with this 100%. I think it’s crazy. And we have to solve the efficiency problem. We must resolve fraud, waste and abuse, or other things that have entered the government. Trump continued by suggesting that there could be “bribes” at USAID, but he did not offer any evidence.

The president professed his confidence in Musk, whom he said that he would say to consult the Ministry of Education, which has long been in the right of the right. Then they will go to the army. “We are going to find hundreds of billions of dollars in fraud and abuse,” said Trump. But there are obvious questions – not posed during the part of this interview which were disseminated today – of the conflict of interests of Musk as a government entrepreneur and the appointment of Trump to direct Doge.